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Louis Aston Knight, "the Stream" - American Post-impressionism And Naturalism
A tranquility emanates from this spring landscape, romantic vision by Louis Aston Knight who depicts a stream bed in the darkness of the trees, joining further on the glow of a clearing.
Drawing on the advice of his father, Daniel Ridgway Knight, and Claude Monet, he masterfully captured the colors of the forest in both shade and light, with their reflections in the water.
A small, bucolic scene that beautifully symbolizes his entire work.
Louis Aston Knight was an American painter born on August 3, 1873, in Paris, and died on May 8, 1948, in New York.
Initially a student of his father, the painter Daniel Ridgway Knight, he entered the Académie Julian in 1892, where he studied in the studios of Jules Lefebvre and Tony Robert-Fleury.
He exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1894 to 1924 and participated in provincial Salons in Reims, Cherbourg, Lyon, Nantes, and other cities.
He received a bronze medal at the 1900 Universal Exposition.
In his paintings, Aston Knight favored thatched cottages, flowers, and the murmuring streams of Normandy.
In 1905, he traveled to the United States for the first time, a country he chose to live in with his family during the war, and his works met with great success.
He held numerous exhibitions, including one for President Coolidge at the White House, and his paintings consistently garnered public acclaim paintings of Normandy. “Some people call it fairyland and others paradise.”
For Aston Knight, it was “the most beautiful place in the world.”
The acquisition of one of the river scenes in 1922 by President Harding for the White House increased the painter's popularity.
He returned to France and settled with his family in Beaumont-le-Roger in a house he had bought.
He redesigned the gardens and had a small cottage built (Diane's Cottage, named after his daughter) using timber framing from old Norman houses.
Aston Knight was a friend of Claude Monet, whom he admired, and was deeply impressed by the garden at Giverny.
After Monet's death, the garden Aston Knight designed for the Chantereine manor (Beaumont-le-Roger) became as renowned as his friend's.
His house was always full of American friends who disembarked in Cherbourg, stopping by for a meal or a night before continuing on to Paris.
Aston Knight always preferred to paint the natural world as he saw it:
"Nature is beautiful enough to inspire masterpieces in those willing to copy it, in order to reveal to others all the poetry it expresses."
Oil on wood panel, in perfect condition, signed "Aston Knight Paris" lower left and located on the back "Parc de Melleville (Eure)" in pencil.
Size : 10,6 x 14 Inches without frame and 16,3 x 19,5 Inches with its wood and gilt stucco frame by Maison R G.
Drawing on the advice of his father, Daniel Ridgway Knight, and Claude Monet, he masterfully captured the colors of the forest in both shade and light, with their reflections in the water.
A small, bucolic scene that beautifully symbolizes his entire work.
Louis Aston Knight was an American painter born on August 3, 1873, in Paris, and died on May 8, 1948, in New York.
Initially a student of his father, the painter Daniel Ridgway Knight, he entered the Académie Julian in 1892, where he studied in the studios of Jules Lefebvre and Tony Robert-Fleury.
He exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1894 to 1924 and participated in provincial Salons in Reims, Cherbourg, Lyon, Nantes, and other cities.
He received a bronze medal at the 1900 Universal Exposition.
In his paintings, Aston Knight favored thatched cottages, flowers, and the murmuring streams of Normandy.
In 1905, he traveled to the United States for the first time, a country he chose to live in with his family during the war, and his works met with great success.
He held numerous exhibitions, including one for President Coolidge at the White House, and his paintings consistently garnered public acclaim paintings of Normandy. “Some people call it fairyland and others paradise.”
For Aston Knight, it was “the most beautiful place in the world.”
The acquisition of one of the river scenes in 1922 by President Harding for the White House increased the painter's popularity.
He returned to France and settled with his family in Beaumont-le-Roger in a house he had bought.
He redesigned the gardens and had a small cottage built (Diane's Cottage, named after his daughter) using timber framing from old Norman houses.
Aston Knight was a friend of Claude Monet, whom he admired, and was deeply impressed by the garden at Giverny.
After Monet's death, the garden Aston Knight designed for the Chantereine manor (Beaumont-le-Roger) became as renowned as his friend's.
His house was always full of American friends who disembarked in Cherbourg, stopping by for a meal or a night before continuing on to Paris.
Aston Knight always preferred to paint the natural world as he saw it:
"Nature is beautiful enough to inspire masterpieces in those willing to copy it, in order to reveal to others all the poetry it expresses."
Oil on wood panel, in perfect condition, signed "Aston Knight Paris" lower left and located on the back "Parc de Melleville (Eure)" in pencil.
Size : 10,6 x 14 Inches without frame and 16,3 x 19,5 Inches with its wood and gilt stucco frame by Maison R G.
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